The Daily Haymaker

Tillis is coming! Tillis is coming! (Or so says Jimmy Dixon …)

Posted on April 6, 2017April 6, 2017 by Brant Clifton

I am told that the best way to get word spread around the big city of Raleigh — and political circles statewide — is to tell Rep. Jimmy Dixon.

#ncga: Voting YES is like voting NO. (Seriously.)

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Brant Clifton

State Rep. Frank Iler (R-Brunswick), who took a walk on the vote to repeal HB2, tried to explain himself to his constituents in an April 4 newsletter: […] Thursday we

If you can’t beat them, turn their state into a Third World Country.

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Brant Clifton

Remember all of that footage in the driveby media of the “unaccompanied children” pouring across our nation’s southern border the last few years? Well, things have gotten a little quiet

Is Chapel Hill eating away at Ol’ Roy’s brain?

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Brant Clifton

For many of us native North Carolinians, Carolina basketball has been something special. It’s long been a powerful unifying force that brought the folks living in the BIG HOUSE together

#ncga: Here comes the judge!

Posted on April 4, 2017 by Brant Clifton

Durham County Chief District Court Judge Marcia Morey is hanging up her black robe and heading over to that den of iniquity on Jones Steet. Local Democrats appointed her to

#ncga: Intercourse? But, of course!

Posted on April 3, 2017 by Brant Clifton

The SAME guy who has burned up the airwaves and the Internet ridiculing conservatives for wanting to keep boys and girls in separate restrooms NOW wants to sink the state’s

WHY is The Right, which brought the GOPe to the dance, THE PROBLEM?

Posted on April 2, 2017April 2, 2017 by Brant Clifton

Who enjoys being lied to? I don’t. Yet, many Republican voters — instate and nationwide — seem to be giving it the OK. Republicans talk a good conservative game at

#ncga: Harnett’s Lewis STILL taking $$$ away from Moore County schools

Posted on April 1, 2017April 1, 2017 by Brant Clifton

In the 2016 GOP primaries, Rep. Jamie Boles’s opponent raised the issue about Harnett County state Rep. David Lewis — chairman of the powerful House Rules committee and a top

(It Begins!) UNC SOG says Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity policies now OKAY for local government contracts

Posted on March 31, 2017 by Brant Clifton

The NCGOPe is spinning hard – trying to tell us the big changes in HB2 are put off until at least 2020. But at least one leading House Republican —

#ncga: Sic ‘im on a freshman!